Spatula and cork-extractor.



No. 759,714. PATBNTED MAY 10, 1904.

E. B. JELKS;

SPATULA AND CORK EXTRAGTOR. APPLICATION FILED FEB.2. 1904.

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UNITED STATES Patented May 10, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

SPATU LA AND CORK-EXTRACTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,714, dated May 10,1904.

Application filed February 2, 1904. Serial No. 191,668. (No model.)

To all whom it ntay concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN BRIGGS J ELKS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Quitman, in the county of Brooks and State of Georgia, havemade certain new and useful Improvements in Spatulas andCork-Extractors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in spatulas, being in the nature of acombined spatula and cork-extractor; and the invention consists incertain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will behereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the improveddevice in use as a cork-extractor. Fig. 2 is adetail perspective view ofthe device, part of the spatula-blade being broken away. Fig. 3 is aplan view of the device, one side of the handle being removed and partsbeing in section. Fig. t is a detail perspective view, partly insection, showing the cork-extracting device and the shank of thespatula. Figure 5 is a detail perspective view of the sleeve of thecork-extracting device, and Fig. 6 is a cross-section on about line 6 6of Fig. 3.

In carrying out my invention I provide a spatula-blade A, having itsshank B held by the rivets C or other suitable devices between thesections D and D of the handle, the shank B being provided at its innerend with a tang or extension B, which operates within the slotted rearend of the shank of the cork-extracting device E, as best shown in Fig.3, and aids in guiding such tang and bracing the cork-extracting devicein position. The corkextracting device E includes the point E, adaptedto be forced into a cork, as shown in Fig. 1, the body portion E, whichis provided at its outer end with the edge lugs a, which fit and aresecured in the slots f in the sleeve F, the body portion being slottedlongitudinally at e to receive the screw G and the inner end of the bodyE being provided with a longitudinal slot 0 in which operates theextension or tang B on the inner end of the shank B of the spatulablade.The sleeveF embraces and slides along the butt-end of the handle D andD, fitting over the latter and 5 forming a slide by which thecork-extracting device may be protruded, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 andas indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 3,

or may be retracted, as shown in full lines,

Fig. 3, so the point of the extracting device will be incased betweenthe butt-ends of the sections D and D of the handle. The screw G turnsthrough the section D of the handle and operating within the slot eserves to guide the extracting device and also to limit the movement oisame out and in, as may be desired. The head of the screw G, it will beno ticed, is countersunk in the handle-section D, so it will not formany obstruction to the movement of the sleeve F, the latter sliding overthe head of the screw to and from the position shown in full lines, Fig.2, and that shown in full lines, Fig.

It will be noticed the sleeve F is made suiliciently long to properlyguide the cork-extractor and also to afford suliicient surface to begripped by the hand in using the extractor, as shown in Fig. 1.Ordinarily it is preferred to form the sleeve with the slots f and tosecure the lugs e of the extractor Ein said slots by soldering, brazing,or in other suitable manner, as desired.

The screw Gr may be turned to tighten the handle to a greater or lessdegree, as may be desired.

The invention will be found especially usefulby druggists in fillingprescriptions, the spatula being used in the ordinary way and theextractor for removing the corks of the large-mouthed bottles employedin drugstores for holding different drugs employed in prescriptions.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire tosecure by Letters Patent, is I 1. The improved spatula andcork-extractor herein described, comprising the handle having theopposite sections, the spatula having its shank secured between saidsections at one end of the latter, and provided at its inner end withthe projecting tang or extension, the extractor having its body portionoperating between the opposite end of the handle-sections and providedin its inner end with a slot to receive the tang of the spatula and alsohaving a longitudinal slot for a screw, such screw T00 connecting thesections of the handle and operating in said slot of the extractor, andthe sleeve encircling the handle and secured to the cork-extractor andslidable along the handle, substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

2. The handle having its sections separated at the butt-end of thehandle, the extractor operating between such sections having alongitudinal slot, the sleeve encircling the buttend of the handle andsecured in connection with the extractor, and slidable along the handle,and the screw turned through the handle and passing through the slot forlimiting the movement of the extractor in the handle, the

W. H. HARDEN, GEORGE D. RAYsoR.

